EP1185114B1 - Telecommunications system and method for establishing at least one new dialing plan - Google Patents

Telecommunications system and method for establishing at least one new dialing plan Download PDF

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EP1185114B1
EP1185114B1 EP01119638A EP01119638A EP1185114B1 EP 1185114 B1 EP1185114 B1 EP 1185114B1 EP 01119638 A EP01119638 A EP 01119638A EP 01119638 A EP01119638 A EP 01119638A EP 1185114 B1 EP1185114 B1 EP 1185114B1
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  • the present invention relates in general to the telecommunications field and, in particular, to a telecommunications system and method capable of establishing specialized dialing plan(s) utilizing one or more of the unused country codes in the traditional international dialing plan.
  • WO 97/25849 discloses a system and method for processing international telephone numbers.
  • a method for parsing a telephone number in an intellectual service control point of a telephone network comprising the steps of determining the nature of the address of the telephone number as national, international or other and extracting the fields of the telephone number according to the nature of the address.
  • Said service control points which are coupled to a plurality of switches and a plurality of data bases serve for controlling a switch routing of telephone calls in accordance with the telephone numbers for those calls.
  • the present invention includes a telecommunications system, service control point and method that can help a telecommunications company to effectively increase the number of available telephone numbers by using the traditional international dialing plan to establish one or more new dialing plans.
  • the telecommunications system could translate the digits of a telephone call having an international access code and a previously unused country code to direct the telephone call to a service provider instead of a foreign country.
  • the telecommunications system could translate the digits of a telephone call having an "access code" followed by a digit sequence similar to the traditional international dialing plan to direct the telephone call to a service provider.
  • the service provider could then manage one of the new dialing plans and offer a variety of services to their customers including, for example, global vanity numbers, global local number portability, global Internet access, and private dialing plans.
  • the present invention enables a telecommunications company to use the traditional international dialing plan to establish one or more new dialing plans.
  • the telecommunications system would translate the digits of a telephone call having an international access code and a previously unused country code to direct the telephone call to a service provider instead of a foreign country.
  • the service provider could manage one of the new dialing plans and offer a variety of services to their customers including, for example, global vanity numbers, global local number portability, global Internet access, and private dialing plans.
  • the telecommunications system 100 includes a switch 102 (e.g., service switching point (SSP)) capable of receiving a telephone call 104 (possible international call) originated by a calling party 106.
  • the switch 102 can forward information associated with the call to the SCP 108.
  • the SCP 108 has routing algorithms that can determine where to direct the telephone call 104 depending on the digits of the telephone call 104.
  • the telecommunications system 100 also includes an interactive voice response system (IVR) 110 (described below) located between the SCP 108 and the switch 102.
  • IVR interactive voice response system
  • the SCP 108 can direct the telephone call 104 (not traditional international call) to a service provider 112 (only one shown) if the telephone call 104 has an international access code and a country code that was once an unused country code in the traditional international dialing plan but is now associated with the service provider 112.
  • the SCP 108 can direct the telephone call 104 (traditional international call) to a foreign country 114 (only one shown) if the telephone call 104 has an international access code and a country code in accordance with the traditional international dialing plan.
  • FIGURE 2 there is a block diagram illustrating in greater detail the components of the telecommunications system 100. Certain details associated with the telecommunications system 100 are known in the industry and as such need not be described herein. Therefore, for clarity, the description provided below in relation to the telecommunications system 100 omits some components not necessary to understand the present invention.
  • the calling party 106 using an electronic device such as a wireless phone, land based phone, computer or personal digital assistant (PDA) originates the telephone call 104 towards a local office switch 202.
  • a local service provider such as Southwestern Bell manages the local office switch 202.
  • the local office switch 202 connects the calling party 106 to a called party 204 if the telephone call 104 has a three-digit area code that is within the coverage area of the local service provider.
  • This type of telephone call 104 is commonly known as a local telephone call or a short-distance toll call.
  • the local office switch 202 forwards information about the telephone call 104 to a long distance switch 102 (described herein as the switch 102) that is managed by a long distance service provider such as AT&T.
  • the switch 102 can be programmed to forward information about the telephone call 104 to a SCP 108 (e.g., Service Control Point (SCP)) when the telephone call 104 appears to be an international call.
  • SCP Service Control Point
  • the switch 102 would forward information about the telephone call 104 and query the SCP 108 when the telephone call 104 has an international access code such as "011".
  • the SCP 108 includes a database 206 and controller 208 capable of interacting with one another to determine whether to direct the telephone call 104 which looks like an international call to the foreign country 114 (only one shown) or to the service providers 112a, 112b, 112c or 112d (only four shown). Essentially, the SCP 108 translates the digits of the telephone call 104 to determine whether to direct the telephone call 104 to one of the service providers 112a, 112b, 112c or 112d or to the foreign country 114.
  • the SCP 108 can direct the telephone call 104 through an international gateway 214 to the foreign country 114 when the telephone call 104 includes an international access code and a country code associated with the foreign country 114.
  • the SCP 108 could direct a telephone call 104 to France when that telephone call 104 has an international access code (e.g., "011"), a country code (e.g., "33") associated with France, a city code and a number.
  • an international access code e.g., "011”
  • a country code e.g., "33”
  • an international telephone call include an international access code + country code + national number (city code + number).
  • the SCP 108 can use the newly assigned and previously unused country codes in the traditional international dialing plan to direct what appears to be an international telephone call 104 through another local office switch 216a or 216b (or even an international gateway or wireless network) to one of the service providers 112a, 112b, 112c or 112d instead of the foreign country 114.
  • the SCP 108 could direct a telephone call 104 to service provider 112a when the telephone call 104 has an international access code (e.g., "011") and a country code (e.g., "999") which is now associated with service provider 112a.
  • the previously unused country codes (e.g., "999") in the traditional international dialing plan are now used by the present invention to direct the telephone call to service providers 112a, 112b, 112c or 112d instead of a foreign country.
  • the digit string dialed by the calling party 106 includes (a) the international dialing plan access code, (b) the country code (1-3 digits long), and (c) the national number (1 to 15 digits long).
  • the digit string is interpreted a bit differently: (a) the international dialing plan access code along with a previously unused country code serves as the vanity dialing plan access code, (b) a 3 digit service provider identification, (c) the vanity number assigned to a subscriber (as specified by the service provider), and (d) an optional suffix to identify the call type. Note that when the service provider identification, the subscriber number, and the suffix are concatenated (joined; placed next to each other), they look like a national number in the international dialing plan.
  • the proposed vanity dialing plan can also be implemented via a separate vanity dialing plan access code specifically assigned for this purpose.
  • the vanity dialing plan implemented using this newly assigned vanity dialing plan access code instead of the proposed vanity dialing plan access code utilizing the international dialing plan access code and a previously unused country code.
  • the examples provided below are meant to illustrate the great flexibility of the new dialing plans made available by the present invention.
  • the service provider 112a, 112b, 112c or 112d can design and manage a new dialing plan to offer one or a variety of services to their customers including, for example, global vanity numbers, global local number portability, global Internet access, and private dialing plans. Following are exemplary descriptions of some of the different dialing plans that can be implemented by service providers 112a, 112b, 112c or 112d using the present invention.
  • this service provider 112a may design and manage a new dialing plan that can provide a global vanity number service. Basically, the service provider 112a would provide an individual or company with a constant phone number that a calling party 106 can use to access them from anywhere in the world regardless of a geographic location of the calling party 106 and regardless of an underlying service provider.
  • the service provider 112a may provide the following telephone number to an individual:
  • the calling party 106 need only dial "011-999-76484" to reach the service provider 112a and hear or view a personalized dialing plan associated with the individual having the vanity name of SMITH.
  • the individual may have a personalized dialing plan as follows:
  • the calling party 106 would select the appropriate digit to try and contact the individual or leave a message for the individual. Alternatively, the calling party 106 may dial the telephone number to retrieve their messages including individual voice mails, facsimiles and emails.
  • the service provider 112a can offer a wide-variety of personalized services to the individual.
  • the service provider 112a can design their own dialing plan, the number of digits in the vanity portion ("76484") of the telephone call 106 is not fixed. For example, the service provider 112a may assign the following telephone number to a college (e.g., University of Texas):
  • a service provider 112a that has their own access code (previously unused country code) which supports a vanity numbering plan having a predetermined number of digits. For instance, a customer of a service provider 112a managing a 10-digit vanity dialing plan could be reached by dialing "011-996-(10-digit vanity number)". Or, a customer of the service provider 112a having a 5-digit vanity dialing plan could be reached by dialing "011-995-(5-digit vanity number)”. Typically, the 5-digit (or less digits) vanity dialing plan would cost the subscribers/service providers more to use than the 10-digit (or mode digits) vanity dialing plan.
  • the service provider 112a handles all the infrastructure and direct physical mappings to connect the telephone call 104 to the traditional dialing plans. Again, the traditional dialing plans do not change since the present invention is an augmentation to the traditional dialing plans using the unused international country codes.
  • the service provider 112a could apply the same numbering convention described above to Internet URL's (uniform resource locators) and email addresses.
  • the vanity name could be handled in multiple xxxy.xxxy type combo's at the front of the @ sign, where the last .xxxy combo specifies one of the following:
  • this service provider 112b may design and manage a new dialing plan that can provide a global local number portability service.
  • the service provider 112b could design a dialing plan very similar to the global vanity number service that would support local number portability.
  • the service provider 112b would provide an individual or company with a constant phone number that a calling party 106 can use to access them from anywhere in the world regardless of a geographic location of the calling party 106 and regardless of an underlying service provider.
  • this service provider 112c may design and manage a new dialing plan that can provide a global Internet access service. Basically, the service provider 112c can automatically connect a calling party 106 that happens to be traveling to their Internet service provider without requiring the calling party 106 to look-up a local access code and then re-configure their computer to connect to their Internet service provider.
  • This global Internet access service can be provided to customers of the service provider 112c regardless of a geographic location of the calling party 106 and regardless of an underlying service provider.
  • the service provider 112c may provide their customers with the following telephone number:
  • the calling party 106 could enter "3" if they are a traveling customer that would like to be directly connected to their Internet service provider.
  • the service provider 112c may ask the calling party 106 where they are currently located.
  • the service provider 112c could determine the location of the calling party 106 by reviewing their B-number. Then, the service party 212c determines the access code associated with the current location of the calling party 106.
  • the service provider 112c could directly connect the calling party 106 to their Internet service provider using the correct local access code.
  • this service provider 112d may design and manage a new dialing plan that can provide a wide-variety of services. Exemplary dialing plans are provided below to illustrate the type of services that can be provided using the present invention.
  • the service provider 112d may be assigned the following telephone number:
  • the service provider 112d may be assigned the following telephone number:
  • the SCP 108 can be programmed to manage the dialing plans and interact with the calling party 106.
  • the IVR 111 (or Internet Protocol-Service Resource Point (IP-SRP)) can be used to communicate back-and-forth with the calling party 106.
  • IP-SRP Internet Protocol-Service Resource Point
  • the telecommunications system 100 would not have to forward the telephone call 104 to a service provider 112a, 112b, 112c or 112d but instead could program the SCP 108 and the IVR 111 to manage a dialing plan.
  • FIGURE 3 there is a flowchart illustrating the steps of the preferred method 300 that can direct what appears to be an international telephone call to either a foreign country 114 or a service provider 112a, 112b, 112c or 112d.
  • the switch 102 receives the telephone call 104 that was originated by the calling party 106.
  • the long distance service provider manages and controls the switch 102 (class 4 switch) which receives the telephone call 104 from the local office switch 202 (class 5 switch).
  • the switch 102 forwards information about the telephone call 104 and queries the SCP 108 when the telephone call appears to be an international call.
  • the SCP 108 determines whether to direct the telephone call 104 to the foreign country 114 or the service provider 112a, 112b, 112c or 112d. To do this, the SCP 108 has routing algorithms that can determine where to direct the telephone call 104 depending on the digits of the telephone call 104.
  • the SCP 108 directs the telephone call 104 to a foreign country 114 whenever the telephone call 104 has an international access code and a country code that is part of the traditional international dialing plan.
  • the SCP 108 directs the telephone call 104 to the appropriate service provider 112a, 112b, 112c or 112d whenever the telephone call 104 has an international access code and a country code that was once an unused country code in the traditional international dialing plan but is now associated with a service provider 112a, 112b, 112c or 112d.
  • a service provider 112a, 112b, 112c or 112d To date of the 999 country codes possible in the international dialing plan only about 277 of them are assigned to a country, which means that there are around 723 unused country codes which can be used to establish a wide variety of new dialing plans.
  • the new dialing plans can be based upon 15-digits which gives the service providers 112a, 112b, 112c and 112d a great deal of flexibility in designing their new dialing plans.
  • the service provider 112a, 112b, 112c or 112d receives the telephone call 104 and manages a dialing plan that can offer a variety of services to their customers including, for example, a global vanity number service, a global local number portability service, a global Internet access service, and a private dialing plan service.
  • dialing plans can be implemented by using just one of the unused country codes of the traditional international dialing plan. Moreover, a country could implement the present invention simply by re-defining their traditional dialing plans.
  • the present invention provides a telecommunications system, service control point and method capable of enabling a telecommunications company to use the traditional international dialing plan to establish one or more new dialing plans.
  • the present invention would likely be of special interest to switch manufacturers, network operators and Internet service providers.

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